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I thought this was going to be about the last wave of fashion models before the AI takes their jobs.

by TheDudeMan 3y ago

politician 3y ago
I can’t be the only one excited to see Optimus on the runway.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago
  > I can’t be the only one excited to see Optimus on the runway. I'm sure Starscream would take issue with that. -- Man, I need a life...
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0xcde4c3db 3y ago
I think there's a historical rhyme here in that there was a weird fad around the turn of the century during which several companies tried to push the concept of "virtual" models/actresses, presumably wanting to amortize the astronomical costs of high-quality modeling/texturing/rigging (at the time) across multiple media franchises. And the media at large actually seemed oddly on board with that project as long as it grabbed eyeballs. The most well-known example was probably when Squaresoft founded a whole-ass CGI film studio in Hawaii and pushed remarkably hard to promote "lead actress" Aki Ross of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as a "Hollywood it girl" [1]. Who could have predicted that what the collective id was actually crying out for was massive advancements in the fields of realtime computer vision and cel-shaded rendering so that people could transform themselves into quirky parasocial anime waifus/husbandos? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Within#Reception_of_Aki_Ross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Wit...
- jhbadger 3y ago
  That movie didn't do well, but in retrospect, it is amazingly good compared to the dead eyed CGI people of the Polar Express, made three years later!
- fnordpiglet 3y ago
  Every advance of media sees these orgies of inappropriate use. My reference for the CGI modeling was the ally mcbeal dancing baby. It was creepy, poorly made CGI yet it showed up literally everywhere even on main stream sitcoms. That in my mind was the harbinger of all that followed, up to the point the CGI blended in and was indistinguishable from reality. You see this with technicolor, sound in film, and I’ll wager with generative AI once people figure out how to integrate it into any sort of meaningful workflow. We already see genai in advertising and other things. It’s just part of the mania people have around the new and intriguing. Then once it’s no longer new and intriguing it becomes another tool in the toolbox - and IMO the real mastery of that tool begins to show.
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I thought this was going to be about the last wave of fashion models before the AI takes their jobs.

politician 3y ago

I can’t be the only one excited to see Optimus on the runway.

CoastalCoder 3y ago
> I can’t be the only one excited to see Optimus on the runway. I'm sure Starscream would take issue with that. -- Man, I need a life...
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0xcde4c3db 3y ago

I think there's a historical rhyme here in that there was a weird fad around the turn of the century during which several companies tried to push the concept of "virtual" models/actresses, presumably wanting to amortize the astronomical costs of high-quality modeling/texturing/rigging (at the time) across multiple media franchises. And the media at large actually seemed oddly on board with that project as long as it grabbed eyeballs. The most well-known example was probably when Squaresoft founded a whole-ass CGI film studio in Hawaii and pushed remarkably hard to promote "lead actress" Aki Ross of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as a "Hollywood it girl" [1]. Who could have predicted that what the collective id was actually crying out for was massive advancements in the fields of realtime computer vision and cel-shaded rendering so that people could transform themselves into quirky parasocial anime waifus/husbandos? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Within#Reception_of_Aki_Ross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Wit...

jhbadger 3y ago
That movie didn't do well, but in retrospect, it is amazingly good compared to the dead eyed CGI people of the Polar Express, made three years later!
fnordpiglet 3y ago
Every advance of media sees these orgies of inappropriate use. My reference for the CGI modeling was the ally mcbeal dancing baby. It was creepy, poorly made CGI yet it showed up literally everywhere even on main stream sitcoms. That in my mind was the harbinger of all that followed, up to the point the CGI blended in and was indistinguishable from reality. You see this with technicolor, sound in film, and I’ll wager with generative AI once people figure out how to integrate it into any sort of meaningful workflow. We already see genai in advertising and other things. It’s just part of the mania people have around the new and intriguing. Then once it’s no longer new and intriguing it becomes another tool in the toolbox - and IMO the real mastery of that tool begins to show.

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